Archaeologists in Syedra, Turkey, have identified more than 100 olive oil workshops, suggesting widespread production during ...

Officials said the finds, announced by Egypt’s antiquities authority, shed light on settlement patterns, production, and ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

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Olive oil mill HR Begar 1. Credit: Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Archaeologists working in the Kasserine region of central Tunisia have uncovered one of the most impressive industrial sites of the ...

View of the excavations at Henchir el Begar. Credit: Università Ca’Foscari Venezia This border region of Africa Proconsularis, once inhabited by the musulamii—populations of Numidian origin—formed a ...

A comprehensive new map of Roman roads has boosted the known size of the empire’s land transport network by almost 60 per cent – and it is available for anyone to explore online. The project, called ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...

Ayodhya's Deepotsav achieved a remarkable feat, securing two Guinness World Records. Over 2,100 individuals simultaneously rotated diyas, while an astounding 2.6 million oil-lit lamps illuminated the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

More than a billion people in India celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali on Monday as a state government secured the much-coveted record for lighting the largest number of oil lamps. Every autumn, ...